PUBLISHERS  &  AUTHORS

DANS LE MIROIR DES MOTS

In the Mirror of Words

MARTIN  BURKE

(Ireland- Belgium)

Presents

LAPWING PRESS

Publishers are more often held in high regard (when they are not held in contempt) than they are held in affection.

Yet ask any poet published by LAPWING PRESS (Belfast) and the response will be one of total affection for the work, and the attitude towards that work, evince by Dennis Grieg.

He has created in Lapwing Press a publishing house which while based in Ireland, and not afraid to be so, is open fully to the wider more expansive world beyond. His concern is not for “Irish Poetry” as such (there are enough publishers who do this and whose criterion is geographical more than artistic) but to the nature of that Individual vision found within Irish poetry –and in poetry from whatever it originates from.

A prime example of this was the publication of Olaf Pirandello by the Flemish poet/painter Kari Bert –a work which was published in a trilingual edition English, Flemish, French. There are not, I think, many publishers throughout Europe who would be willing to do this but Dennis was unhesitating in accepting the work and publishing it. This attitude, this eye open for the quality of work rather than seeking work which conforms to a particular theory is what distinguishes his approach to publishing and his approach to poets. It is a quality which others would do well to imitate but so far few have. One can only hope that magazines such as this one will open the way for readers to come in contact with a publishers of the first order and a true gentleman of poetry, society, and beyond.

www.freewebs.com/lapwingpoetry/

CONTACT:

Lapwing Publications
1 Ballysillan Drive
Belfast
BT14 8HQ

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Martin Burke is Irish but has lived in Belgium for over twenty years. His work has appeared in World Order, Analysands, The Lilliput Review, Drunken Boat, Snakeskin, Poetry about Poetry, Other Poetry, Transference, Arts Dialogue, Virtual Writer, and others. This year he has published two books: The Other Life and The Weave That Binds Us.